Starting SSHD at boot

[dial8d]

Hi All

Come across a strange one today. A newly built p550 at AIX 5.3 TL7 01-0748 with the following openssl and openssh installed.

openssh.base.client 4.5.0.5302 COMMITTED Open Secure Shell Commands
openssh.base.server 4.5.0.5302 COMMITTED Open Secure Shell Server
openssh.license 4.5.0.5302 COMMITTED Open Secure Shell License
openssh.man.en_US 4.5.0.5302 COMMITTED Open Secure Shell
openssh.msg.en_US 4.5.0.5302 COMMITTED Open Secure Shell Messages -
openssl.base 0.9.8.4 COMMITTED Open Secure Socket Layer
openssl.license 0.9.8.4 COMMITTED Open Secure Socket License
openssl.man.en_US 0.9.8.4 COMMITTED Open Secure Socket Layer
openssh.base.client 4.5.0.5302 COMMITTED Open Secure Shell Commands
openssh.base.server 4.5.0.5302 COMMITTED Open Secure Shell Server
openssl.base 0.9.8.4 COMMITTED Open Secure Socket Layer

The installation greates the sshd src group, and the Ssshd and Ksshd scripts at /etc/rc.d/rc2.d

The problem is that sshd does not start at boot. I have a 2nd p550 configured identically, same patch levels, and sshd starts just fine.

I cant work out why it wont start. I have uninstalled and reinstalled openssl and openssh several times, and even tried starting it by adding a startup call from /etc/inittab, and still no joy.

The only way i can get sshd to start is by adding a call into /etc/rc.tcpip

# Start SSHD
start /usr/sbin/sshd "$src_running"

I have never seen this problem before. Although i have a workaround, id like to get to the bottom of it.

Anyone had this before ?

 

[DukeSSD]

on the working 550 does it show in inittab or rc.tcpip?

if it does not start from inittab try moving it up, maybe something else is failing to start on a wait statement and so the rest of inittab is not running.